Assesses report by 1983 Commission on Indian Reservation Economies, which links slow economic growth on Indian reservations to lack of education. Contradicts report's conclusions using data from Navajo reservation. Examines apparent federal assumptions regarding reservation economies. Challenges these assumptions and suggests alternative approach…

A study examined the experiences of some 1.4 million American defense industry workers, displaced in the wake of the Cold War, as a way of reviewing and evaluating national policies toward worker adjustment and re-employment as they have evolved in the 1990s. The study found that the federal government, through the Department of Labor,…